The minority “Wakefieldites” (followers of Edward Gibbon Wakefield) opposed the move, and tried to leave so that there would not be two-thirds of members present.
Her eldest brother, Matthew Davenport Hill, was Recorder of Birmingham, penal reformer and a supporter of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
Together with Lord Lyttelton, Lord Richard Cavendish and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, he guaranteed ₤15,000 to the Canterbury Association in April 1850, which saved it from financial collapse.
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When his family ran into financial problems, his father's cousin, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, managed to secure Bell a position as a clerk in the New Zealand Company's head office in London.
Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield